By joe10 | January 15, 2003
Crystal Blue Persuasion
The IA list has been all a-buzz with views and links surrounding “Persuasive Architecture/Navigation/Writing”, which I thought I’d summarize here.
The concept is pretty easy. It’s been used by advertisers, non profits, P.R. firms and any others who care enough about getting their message out to make their text, layout and design compelling enough to get the reader off the couch to “dial that phone number”, “sign that petition”, “send in that contribution” or whatever. At it’s core is telling people what you offer and framing it in a way that’s meaningful to them so they experience a desire to act.
Pretty funny, really. I’ve been espousing that if Web sites and such don’t meet the business goals, then it doesn’t matter if it meets the users goals, because that site isn’t going to last long for some time. It’s for this very reason that I started distributing my Site Goals Workbook free of charge and publishing the Better Sites newsletter (e-zine) to try to give tips on merging these two goal sets.
By joe10 | November 13, 2002
Browser Dis-function database
Sitesleuth Home Page
By joe10 | October 2, 2002
Mouse Gesture plug-in and extensible API
StrokeIt – Mouse Gestures for Windows
Nifty
By joe10 | September 7, 2002
Pretty patterns revisited
While reading a post by James Hobart of Classic System Solutions titled Implementing Visual Design Patterns or “VDPs”, my interest in design patterns was rekindled, so I began poking around and reading once again.
Hobarts article had the benefit of giving history, current usage and a brief example of implementation which put it above most other similar articles. Granted, he has more to gain as his article was a trailer for his retail product “GuiGuide”. A good article non the less.
I bounced some e-mails back and forth with my Father who has seen similar things used to analyse social discourse over the years and he found some interestin greferances and shared reflections with me:
I have a suspicion that pattern things is an academic kind of exploration of an aspect of something called SYSTEMS THINKING THINGS which used to be called systems theory (among many other labels) until it was discovered that there is, really, not a system theory. In science as we know it and use it and do it, a theory has to be testable by the systematic aggregation of data, or its not a theory.
I suspect that thinking about systems is helpful to countless people who earn a living in criticism, technology, science, and math; and that thinking about patterns helps them to think about systems ideas. I believe that to recognize that there is a difference between something that is a system and something that is not a system, is a good idea. The same for patterns.
Good things to think about– now and then. For most of us, not directly helpful except to recognize that there is probably a better way to do whatever we are doing.
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Some of the links we looked at are here:
By joe10 | August 30, 2002
Web Economy Bull!@#$ Generator
Another old favorite:
dack.com > web > web economy bull!@#$ generator Web Economy Bullshit Generator
By joe10 | August 30, 2002
get a new job title
Ah, this one takes you back to 1997…
The Amazing Web Job Title Generator
By joe10 | August 26, 2002
By joe10 | August 26, 2002
Cost Justifications for Standards Compliant sites
Web Standards for Hard Times
And I didn’t know Web Monkey still existed…
By joe10 | August 20, 2002
User Created Mobile Content
Will user-generated content be as important for the mobile Internet as it is for the wired Internet?
TheFeature :: It’s All About The Mobile Internet
spell checker for MSIE
Awesome addition for the frequent BLOGer, Wiki-naut or any other HTML form typist.
ieSpell – Spell Checker add-on for Internet Explorer